On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:57:09PM -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 19:55 -0500, jedi wrote:
>>>> > If you don't have any interest in subtitles or alternate language tracks or closed captions
>> > then transcoding probably doesn't present a downside.
>>>> That isn't a downside. You can transcode and include all the languages
>> and subtitles. As you say, just compress the video. 5x size savings is
>> easy.
>> That gets a little more complicated.
mkv seems to be a popular container if you do want lots of extras (eg
subtitles and more than one audio track)